List of the best Tommy Noonan movies: The Rookie(1959), Promises! Promises!(1963), Bundle of Joy(1956), A Star Is Born(1954), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes(1953), Violent Saturday(1955), The Girl Most Likely(1957), The Best Things in Life Are Free(1956), The Return of Jesse James(1950), Cottonpickin' Chickenpickers(1967), Adam's Rib(1949), Crack-Up(1946) ... ...
Comedy
1959
86 Minutes
Producer
Tommy Noonan Peter Marshall Julie Newmeyer Jerry Lester Claude Stroud Norman Leavitt Joe Besser Vince Barnett Herb Armstrong
draftee private sergeant movie star medic japanese sailor amusing lighthearted playful radio station military base japan island hollywood, calif. world war ii draft love triangle jealousy publicity stunts basic training
A V-J Day draftee (Tommy Noonan) winds up marooned with his sergeant (Pete Marshall), a movie star (Julie Newmar) and two Japanese soldiers.
Comedy
1963
75 Minutes
Producer
Jayne Mansfield Marie McDonald Tommy Noonan Mickey Hargitay Fritz Feld Eileen Barton Claude Stroud Eddie Quillan Imogene Coca
A TV comedy writer (Tommy Noonan) and his wife (Jayne Mansfield) go on a cruise with another couple, and each wife becomes pregnant.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1956
98 Minutes
Freddie Miller
Eddie Fisher Debbie Reynolds Adolphe Menjou Tommy Noonan Nita Talbot Una Merkel Melville Cooper Bill Goodwin Howard McNear Robert H. Harris Mary Treen
salesgirl business owner son baby coworker landlady hilarious frenetic heartwarming new york city department store apartment restaurant office family home maternity single mothers mistaken identity unusual romance gossip
After finding a baby outside an orphanage, a salesgirl receives sympathy from those around her, including her boss' son, as they all assume the baby is hers.
Musical
USA
1954
176 Minutes
Danny McGuire
Judy Garland James Mason Jack Carson Charles Bickford Tommy Noonan Lucy Marlow Amanda Blake Irving Bacon Hazel Shermet James Brown Lotus Robb
actor actress emotional engaging touching hollywood, calif. movie set aging actors love ambition alcoholism love sacrifice transformation 1950s
A film star helps a young singer and actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career on a downward spiral.
Comedy, Musical
USA
1953
91 Minutes
Gus Esmond
Jane Russell Marilyn Monroe Charles Coburn Elliott Reid Tommy Noonan George Winslow Marcel Dalio Taylor Holmes Norma Varden Howard Wendell Steven Geray
dancer millionaire detective friend father airy lighthearted playful courtroom ocean liner paris money marriage blackmail romance temptation love pursuit 1950s
Showgirls Lorelei Lee and Dorothy Shaw travel to Paris, pursued by a private detective hired by the suspicious father of Lorelei's fiancé, as well as a rich, enamored old man and many other doting admirers.
Crime, Drama
USA
1955
91 Minutes
Harry Reeves
Victor Mature Richard Egan Stephen McNally Virginia Leith Tommy Noonan Lee Marvin Margaret Hayes J. Carrol Naish Sylvia Sidney Ernest Borgnine Dorothy Patrick
criminal father son husband wife farmer dark emotional small town mine bank household farm arizona bank heist voyeurism father/son relationship infidelity hostage situation violence
Three men case a small town very carefully, with plans to rob the bank on the upcoming Saturday, which turns violent and deadly.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1957
98 Minutes
Buzz
Jane Powell Cliff Robertson Keith Andes Kaye Ballard Tommy Noonan Una Merkel Kelly Brown Judy Nugent Frank Cady Nacho Galindo Chris Essay
pretty woman boyfriend blue-collar worker millionaire fiancé best friend lighthearted spirited amusing balboa, calif. beach ferry household yacht tijuana, mexico marriage proposal romantic dilemma marrying for money jealousy true love
Dodie dreams of marrying a millionaire so that she can live 'the life'. Buzz, her boyfriend, however is not rich as he is a salesman for a housing development. He proposes and Dodie accepts... See full summary »
Musical
USA
1956
104 Minutes
Carl Frisbee
Gordon MacRae Dan Dailey Ernest Borgnine Sheree North Tommy Noonan Murvyn Vye Phyllis Avery Larry Keating Tony Galento Norman Brooks Jacques d'Amboise
Ray joins Buddy and Lew to form a successful 1920s musical show writing team. Soon, they've got several hits on Broadway, but Buddy's ambition leads to friction among the group, as the other 2 feel increasingly left out.
Western
USA
1950
75 Minutes
Charlie Ford
John Ireland Ann Dvorak Henry Hull Hugh O'Brian Reed Hadley Victor Kilian Byron Foulger Tommy Noonan Clifton Young Margia Dean Sid Melton
Frank James resents and tries to stop a ruthless drifter who has adopted the name of his dead brother in order to duplicate his crimes.
Comedy
1967
92 Minutes
Bird-Dog Berrigan
Del Reeves Hugh X. Lewis Sonny Tufts David Houston Greta Thyssen Max Rosenbloom Lila Lee Tommy Noonan Hank Mills Philip Hunter Margie Bowes
Romance
USA
1949
101 Minutes
Spencer Tracy Katharine Hepburn Judy Holliday Tom Ewell David Wayne Jean Hagen Hope Emerson Polly Moran Marvin Kaplan Paula Raymond Tommy Noonan
lawyer husband wife amusing engaging hilarious playful courtroom city household marriage love lawyers adultery love rivalry 1940s
Domestic and professional tensions mount when a husband and wife work as opposing lawyers in a case involving a woman who shot her husband.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1946
93 Minutes
Pat O'Brien Claire Trevor Herbert Marshall Ray Collins Wallace Ford Dean Harens Damian O'Flynn Erskine Sanford Mary Ware Harry Harvey Robert Bray
art expert psychiatrist police detective reporter coworker museum director intricate uneasy manhattan, n.y. art museum train police station set-up forgery art drugs investigation shady dealings mystery discovery
Art curator George Steele experiences a train wreck...which never happened. Is he cracking up, or the victim of a plot?
Crime, Drama
USA
1947
92 Minutes
Lawrence Tierney Claire Trevor Walter Slezak Phillip Terry Audrey Long Elisha Cook Jr. Isabel Jewell Esther Howard Kathryn Card Tony Barrett Grandon Rhodes
murderer woman half sister fiancé proprieter investigator brutal dark raw reno, nev. boardinghouse train san francisco household bedroom investigation desire murder jealousy greed
A calculating divorcée risks her chances at wealth and security with a man she doesn't love by getting involved with the hotheaded murderer romancing her foster sister.